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<h2 id="top">Overview of Apache Ant Tasks</h2>
<p>Given the large number of tasks available with Ant, it may be
difficult to get an overall view of what each task can do.  The following
tables provide a short description of each task and a link to the complete
documentation.</p>

<a href="#archive">Archive Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#audit">Audit/Coverage Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#compile">Compile Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#deploy">Deployment Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#doc">Documentation Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#ejb">EJB Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#exec">Execution Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#file">File Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#extensions">Java Extensions Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#log">Logging Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#mail">Mail Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#misc">Miscellaneous Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#preproc">Pre-process Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#prop">Property Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#remote">Remote Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#scm">SCM Tasks</a><br/>
<a href="#testing">Testing Tasks</a><br/>

<div class="float" id="archive">
    <span class="left">Archive Tasks</span>
    <span class="right"><a href="#top" style="text-decoration:none;">&#x1f51d;</a></span>
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<table>
  <tr>
    <th scope="col">Task Name</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/unpack.html">GUnzip/BUnzip2/UnXZ</a></td>
    <td><p>Expands a file packed using GZip, BZip2 or XZ.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/pack.html">GZip/BZip2/XZ</a></td>
    <td><p>Packs a file using the GZip, BZip2 or XZ algorithm. This task
     does not do any dependency checking; the output file is always
     generated</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/cab.html">Cab</a></td>
    <td><p>Creates Microsoft CAB archive files. It is invoked similar
     to the <a href="Tasks/jar.html">Jar</a>
     or <a href="Tasks/zip.html">Zip</a> tasks. This task will work on
     Windows using the external <code>cabarc</code> tool (provided by
     Microsoft), which must be located in your executable
     path.</p></td>
   </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/ear.html">Ear</a></td>
    <td><p>An extension of the <a href="Tasks/jar.html">Jar</a> task
     with special treatment for files that should end up in an
     Enterprise Application archive.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/jar.html">Jar</a></td>
    <td><p>Jars a set of files.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/jlink.html">Jlink</a></td>
    <td><p><em><u>Deprecated</u></em>. Use the <code>zipfileset</code>
     and <code>zipgroupfileset</code> attributes of
     the <a href="Tasks/jar.html">Jar</a>
     or <a href="Tasks/zip.html">Zip</a> tasks instead.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/manifest.html">Manifest</a></td>
    <td><p>Creates a manifest file.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/rpm.html">Rpm</a></td>
    <td><p>Invokes the <kbd>rpm</kbd> executable to build a Linux
     installation file. This task currently only works on Linux or
     other Unix platforms with RPM support.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/signjar.html">SignJar</a></td>
    <td><p>Signs a jar or zip file with the <kbd>javasign</kbd>
     command-line tool.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/tar.html">Tar</a></td>
    <td><p>Creates a tar archive.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/unzip.html">Unjar</a></td>
    <td><p>Unzips a jarfile.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/unzip.html">Untar</a></td>
    <td><p>Untars a tarfile.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/unzip.html">Unwar</a></td>
    <td><p>Unzips a warfile.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/unzip.html">Unzip</a></td>
    <td><p>Unzips a zipfile.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/war.html">War</a></td>
    <td><p>An extension of the <a href="Tasks/jar.html">Jar</a> task
     with special treatment for files that should end up in
     the <samp>WEB-INF/lib</samp>, <samp>WEB-INF/classes</samp>,
     or <samp>WEB-INF</samp> directories of the Web Application
     Archive.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/zip.html">Zip</a></td>
    <td><p>Creates a zipfile.</p></td>
  </tr>
</table>

<div class="float" id="audit">
    <span class="left">Audit/Coverage Tasks</span>
    <span class="right"><a href="#top" style="text-decoration:none;">&#x1f51d;</a></span>
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<table>
  <tr>
    <th scope="col">Task Name</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/jdepend.html">JDepend</a></td>
    <td><p>Invokes
     the <a href="http://www.clarkware.com/software/JDepend.html"
     target="_top">JDepend</a> parser. This parser &quot;traverses a
     set of Java source-file directories and generates design-quality
     metrics for each Java package&quot;.</p></td>
   </tr>
</table>

<div class="float" id="compile">
    <span class="left">Compile Tasks</span>
    <span class="right"><a href="#top" style="text-decoration:none;">&#x1f51d;</a></span>
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  <tr>
    <th scope="col">Task Name</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/depend.html">Depend</a></td>
    <td><p>Determines which class files are out-of-date with respect
     to their source, removing the class files of any other classes
     that depend on the out-of-date classes, forcing the re-compile of
     the removed class files.  Typically used in conjunction with the
     <a href="Tasks/javac.html">Javac</a> task.</p></td>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/javac.html">Javac</a></td>
    <td><p>Compiles the specified source file(s) within the running
     (Ant) JVM, or in another JVM if the <var>fork</var> attribute is
     specified.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/jspc.html">JspC</a></td>
    <td><p>Runs the JSP compiler. It can be used to precompile JSP
     pages for fast initial invocation of JSP pages, deployment on a
     server without the full JDK installed, or simply to syntax-check
     the pages without deploying
     them. The <a href="Tasks/javac.html">Javac</a> task can be used
     to compile the generated Java source.  (For WebLogic JSP
     compiler, see the <a href="Tasks/wljspc.html">Wljspc</a>
     task.)</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/netrexxc.html">NetRexxC</a></td>
    <td><p>Compiles
     a <a href="https://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/netrexx/library.html"
     target="_top">NetRexx</a> source tree within the running (Ant)
     JVM.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/rmic.html">Rmic</a></td>
    <td><p>Runs the <kbd>rmic</kbd> compiler on the specified file(s).</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/wljspc.html">Wljspc</a></td>
    <td><p>Compiles JSP pages using WebLogic JSP
     compiler, <code>weblogic.jspc</code>. (For non-WebLogic JSP
     compiler, see the <a href="Tasks/jspc.html">JspC</a>
     task.</p></td>
  </tr>
</table>

<div class="float" id="deploy">
    <span class="left">Deployment Tasks</span>
    <span class="right"><a href="#top" style="text-decoration:none;">&#x1f51d;</a></span>
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<table>
  <tr>
    <th scope="col">Task Name</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/serverdeploy.html">ServerDeploy</a></td>
    <td><p>Runs a &quot;hot&quot; deployment tool for vendor-specific
     J2EE server.</p></td>
  </tr>
</table>

<div class="float" id="doc">
    <span class="left">Documentation Tasks</span>
    <span class="right"><a href="#top" style="text-decoration:none;">&#x1f51d;</a></span>
</div>

<table>
  <tr>
    <th scope="col">Task Name</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/javadoc.html">Javadoc</a></td>
    <td><p>Generates code documentation using the <kbd>javadoc</kbd>
     tool. <em>The <code>Javadoc2</code> task is <u>deprecated</u>; use
     the <code>Javadoc</code> task instead.</em></p></td>
  </tr>
</table>

<div class="float" id="ejb">
    <span class="left">EJB Tasks</span>
    <span class="right"><a href="#top" style="text-decoration:none;">&#x1f51d;</a></span>
</div>

<table>
  <tr>
    <th scope="col">Task Name</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/ejb.html">EJB Tasks</a></td>
    <td><p>(See the documentation describing the EJB tasks.)</p></td>
  </tr>
</table>

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    <span class="left">Execution Tasks</span>
    <span class="right"><a href="#top" style="text-decoration:none;">&#x1f51d;</a></span>
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<table>
  <tr>
    <th scope="col">Task Name</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/ant.html">Ant</a></td>
    <td><p>Runs Ant on a supplied buildfile, optionally
     passing properties (with possibly new values).
     This task can be used to build sub-projects.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/antcall.html">AntCall</a></td>
    <td><p>Runs another target within the same buildfile, optionally
     passing properties (with possibly new values).</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/apply.html">Apply/<em>ExecOn</em></a></td>
    <td><p>Executes a system command. When the <var>os</var> attribute is
     specified, the command is only executed when Ant is run on one
     of the specified operating systems.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/dependset.html">Dependset</a></td>
    <td><p>Compares a set of source files with a set of target
     files.  If any of the source files is newer than any of
     the target files, all the target files are removed.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/exec.html">Exec</a></td>
    <td><p>Executes a system command. When the <var>os</var> attribute
     is specified, the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of
     the specified operating systems.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/java.html">Java</a></td>
    <td><p>Executes a Java class within the running (Ant) JVM, or in
     another JVM if the <var>fork</var> attribute is specified.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/parallel.html">Parallel</a></td>
    <td><p>A container task that can contain other Ant tasks.
     Each nested task specified within the <code>&lt;parallel&gt;</code>
     tag will be executed in its own thread.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/sequential.html">Sequential</a></td>
    <td><p>A container task that can contain other Ant tasks.
     The nested tasks are simply executed in sequence. Its primary use is
     to support the sequential execution of a subset of tasks within
     the <code>&lt;parallel&gt;</code> tag.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/sleep.html">Sleep</a></td>
    <td><p>Suspends execution for a specified period of time.
     Useful when a build or deployment process requires an interval between
     tasks.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/subant.html">Subant</a></td>
    <td><p>Calls a given target for all defined sub-builds. This is an
     extension of ant for bulk project execution.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/waitfor.html">Waitfor</a></td>
    <td><p>Blocks execution until a set of specified conditions become true.
     This task is intended to be used with the
     <a href="Tasks/parallel.html">Parallel</a> task to synchronize
     a set of processes.</p></td>
  </tr>
</table>

<div class="float" id="file">
    <span class="left">File Tasks</span>
    <span class="right"><a href="#top" style="text-decoration:none;">&#x1f51d;</a></span>
</div>

<table>
  <tr>
    <th scope="col">Task Name</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/attrib.html">Attrib</a></td>
    <td><p>Changes the permissions and/or attributes of a file or all
     files inside the specified directories. Currently, it has effect
     only under Windows.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/checksum.html">Checksum</a></td>
    <td><p>Generates a checksum for a file or set of files. This task can
     also be used to perform checksum verifications.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/chgrp.html">Chgrp</a></td>
    <td><p>Changes the group ownership of a file or all files inside
     the specified directories. Currently, it has effect only under
     Unix.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/chmod.html">Chmod</a></td>
    <td><p>Changes the permissions of a file or all files inside the
     specified directories. Currently, it has effect only under Unix.
     The permissions are also UNIX style, like the arguments for the
     <kbd>chmod</kbd> command.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/chown.html">Chown</a></td>
    <td><p>Changes the owner of a file or all files inside the
     specified directories. Currently, it has effect only under
     Unix.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/concat.html">Concat</a></td>
    <td><p>Concatenates multiple files into a single one or to Ant's
     logging system.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/copy.html">Copy</a></td>
    <td><p>Copies a file or Fileset to a new file or directory.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/copydir.html"><em>Copydir</em></a></td>
    <td><p><em><u>Deprecated</u></em>.  Use
     the <a href="Tasks/copy.html">Copy</a> task instead.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/copyfile.html"><em>Copyfile</em></a></td>
    <td><p><em><u>Deprecated</u></em>.  Use
     the <a href="Tasks/copy.html">Copy</a> task instead.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/delete.html">Delete</a></td>
    <td><p>Deletes either a single file, all files and sub-directories
     in a specified directory, or a set of files specified by one or
     more <a href="Types/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/deltree.html"><em>Deltree</em></a></td>
    <td><p><em><u>Deprecated</u></em>.  Use
     the <a href="Tasks/delete.html">Delete</a> task instead.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/filter.html">Filter</a></td>
    <td><p>Sets a token filter for this project, or reads multiple
     token filters from a specified file and sets these as
     filters. Token filters are used by all tasks that perform
     file-copying operations.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/fixcrlf.html">FixCRLF</a></td>
    <td><p>Modifies a file to add or remove tabs, carriage returns,
     linefeeds, and EOF characters.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/get.html">Get</a></td>
    <td><p>Gets a file from a URL.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/mkdir.html">Mkdir</a></td>
    <td><p>Creates a directory. Non-existent parent directories are
     created, when necessary.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/move.html">Move</a></td>
    <td><p>Moves a file to a new file or directory, or a set(s) of
     file(s) to a new directory.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/patch.html">Patch</a></td>
      <td><p>Applies a <q>diff</q> file to originals.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/rename.html"><em>Rename</em></a></td>
    <td><p><em><u>Deprecated</u></em>.  Use
    the <a href="Tasks/move.html">Move</a> task instead.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/renameextensions.html"><em>RenameExtensions</em></a></td>
    <td><p><em><u>Deprecated</u></em>. Use
     the <a href="Tasks/move.html">Move</a> task with
     a <a href="Types/mapper.html#glob-mapper">glob mapper</a>
     instead.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/replace.html">Replace</a></td>
    <td><p>Replaces the occurrence of a given string with another
     string in a file or set of files.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/replaceregexp.html">ReplaceRegExp</a></td>
    <td><p>Replaces the occurrence of a given regular expression with
     a substitution pattern in a file or set of files.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/setpermissions.html">SetPermissions</a></td>
    <td><p>Changes the permissions of a collection of resources.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/sync.html">Sync</a></td>
    <td><p>Synchronizes two directory trees.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/tempfile.html">Tempfile</a></td>
    <td><p>Generates a name for a new temporary file and sets the
     specified property to that name.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/touch.html">Touch</a></td>
    <td><p>Changes the modification time of a file and possibly
     creates it at the same time.</p></td>
  </tr>
</table>

<div class="float" id="extensions">
    <span class="left">Java Extensions Tasks</span>
    <span class="right"><a href="#top" style="text-decoration:none;">&#x1f51d;</a></span>
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<table>
  <tr>
    <th scope="col">Task Name</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td>
    <a href="Tasks/jarlib-available.html">Jarlib-available</a></td>
    <td><p>Checks whether an extension is present in a FileSet or an
      ExtensionSet. If the extension is present, the specified
      property is set.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td>
    <a href="Tasks/jarlib-display.html">Jarlib-display</a></td>
    <td><p>Displays the <q>Optional Package</q> and <q>Package
     Specification</q> information contained within the specified
     jars.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td>
    <a href="Tasks/jarlib-manifest.html">Jarlib-manifest</a></td>
    <td><p>Generates a manifest that declares all the dependencies in
     manifest. The dependencies are determined by looking in the
     specified path and searching for <q>Extension</q>/<q>Optional
     Package</q> specifications in the manifests of the jars.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td>
    <a href="Tasks/jarlib-resolve.html">Jarlib-resolve</a></td>
    <td><p>Tries to locate a jar to satisfy an extension, and places the
     location of the jar into the specified property.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

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    <span class="left">Logging Tasks</span>
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    <th scope="col">Task Name</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/recorder.html">Record</a></td>
    <td><p>Runs a listener that records the logging output of the
     build process events to a file. Several recorders can exist
     at the same time. Each recorder is associated with a file.</p></td>
  </tr>
</table>

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    <span class="left">Mail Tasks</span>
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<table>
  <tr>
    <th scope="col">Task Name</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/mail.html">Mail</a></td>
    <td><p>Sends SMTP email.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/mimemail.html"><em>MimeMail</em></a></td>
    <td><p><em><u>Deprecated</u></em>. Use
     the <a href="Tasks/mail.html">Mail</a> task instead.</p></td>
  </tr>
</table>

<div class="float" id="misc">
    <span class="left">Miscellaneous Tasks</span>
    <span class="right"><a href="#top" style="text-decoration:none;">&#x1f51d;</a></span>
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<table>
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    <th scope="col">Task Name</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/defaultexcludes.html">Defaultexcludes</a></td>
    <td><p>Modifies the list of default exclude patterns from within
     your build file.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/echo.html">Echo</a></td>
    <td><p>Echoes text to <code>System.out</code> or to a file.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/fail.html">Fail</a></td>
    <td><p>Exits the current build by throwing
     a <code>BuildException</code>, optionally printing additional
     information.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/genkey.html">GenKey</a></td>
    <td><p>Generates a key in keystore.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/hostinfo.html">HostInfo</a></td>
    <td><p>Sets properties related to the provided host, or to the
     host the process is run on.</p></td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><a href="Tasks/input.html">Input</a></td>
    <td><p>Allows user interaction during the build process by
     displaying a message and reading a line of input from the
     console.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/script.html">Script</a></td>
    <td><p>Executes a script in
     a <a href="https://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/" target="_top">Apache
     BSF</a>-supported language.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/sound.html">Sound</a></td>
    <td><p>Plays a sound file at the end of the build, according to
     whether the build failed or succeeded.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/splash.html">Splash</a></td>
    <td><p>Displays a splash screen.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/sql.html">Sql</a></td>
    <td><p>Executes a series of SQL statements via JDBC to a
     database. Statements can either be read in from a text file using
     the <code>src</code> attribute, or from between the enclosing SQL
     tags.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/taskdef.html">Taskdef</a></td>
    <td><p>Adds a task definition to the current project, such that
     this new task can be used in the current project.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/tstamp.html">TStamp</a></td>
    <td><p>Sets the <code>DSTAMP</code>, <code>TSTAMP</code>,
     and <code>TODAY</code> properties in the current project, based
     on the current date and time.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/typedef.html">Typedef</a></td>
    <td><p>Adds a data-type definition to the current project, such
     that this new type can be used in the current project.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/xmlvalidate.html">XmlValidate</a></td>
    <td><p>Checks that XML files are valid (or only well-formed). This
     task uses the XML parser that is currently used by Ant by
     default, but any SAX1/2 parser can be specified, if
     needed.</p></td>
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    <th scope="col">Description</th>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/antlr.html">ANTLR</a></td>
    <td><p>Invokes the <a href="https://www.antlr.org/"
     target="_top">ANTLR</a> Translator generator on a grammar
     file.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/antstructure.html">AntStructure</a></td>
    <td><p>Generates a DTD for Ant buildfiles that contains
     information about all tasks currently known to Ant.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/import.html">Import</a></td>
    <td><p>Imports another build file and potentially overrides
     targets in it with targets of your own.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/include.html">Include</a></td>
    <td><p>Includes another build file.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/javacc.html">JavaCC</a></td>
    <td><p>Invokes the <a href="https://javacc.org/"
     target="_top">JavaCC</a> compiler-compiler on a grammar
     file.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/javah.html">Javah</a></td>
    <td><p>Generates JNI headers from a Java class.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/jjdoc.html">JJDoc</a></td>
    <td><p>Invokes the <a href="https://javacc.org/"
     target="_top">JJDoc</a> documentation generator for the JavaCC
     compiler-compiler.  JJDoc takes a JavaCC parser specification and
     produces documentation for the BNF grammar.  It can operate in
     three modes, determined by command line options. This task only
     invokes JJDoc if the grammar file is newer than the generated BNF
     grammar documentation.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/jjtree.html">JJTree</a></td>
    <td><p>Invokes the <a href="https://javacc.org/"
     target="_top">JJTree</a> preprocessor for the JavaCC
     compiler-compiler. It inserts parse-tree building actions at
     various places in the JavaCC source that it generates. The output
     of JJTree is run through JavaCC to create the parser. This task
     only invokes JJTree if the grammar file is newer than the
     generated JavaCC file.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/macrodef.html">Macrodef</a></td>
    <td><p>Defines a new task as a macro built-up upon other tasks.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/native2ascii.html">Native2Ascii</a></td>
    <td><p>Converts files from native encodings to ASCII with escaped
     Unicode.  A common usage is to convert source files maintained in
     a native operating system encoding to ASCII, prior to
     compilation.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/presetdef.html">Presetdef</a></td>
    <td><p>Defines a new task by instrumenting an existing task with
     default values for attributes or child elements.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/translate.html">Translate</a></td>
    <td><p>Identifies keys in files, delimited by special tokens, and
     translates them with values read from resource bundles.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/style.html">XSLT</a></td>
    <td><p>Processes a set of documents via XSLT.</p></td>
  </tr>
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    <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/available.html">Available</a></td>
    <td><p>Sets a property if a specified file, directory, class in
     the classpath, or JVM system resource is available at
     run time.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/basename.html">Basename</a></td>
    <td><p>Sets a property to the last element of a specified path.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/buildnumber.html">BuildNumber</a></td>
    <td><p>Helps tracking build numbers.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/condition.html">Condition</a></td>
    <td><p>Sets a property if a certain condition holds true; this is
     a generalization of <a href="Tasks/available.html">Available</a>
     and <a href="Tasks/uptodate.html">Uptodate</a>.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/dirname.html">Dirname</a></td>
    <td><p>Sets a property to the value of the specified file up to,
     but not including, the last path element.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/echoproperties.html">Echoproperties</a></td>
    <td><p>Lists the current properties.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/loadfile.html">LoadFile</a></td>
    <td><p>Loads a file into a property.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/loadproperties.html">LoadProperties</a></td>
    <td><p>Loads a file's contents as Ant properties. This task is
     equivalent to using <code>&lt;property
     file=&quot;...&quot;/&gt;</code> except that it supports
     nested <code>&lt;filterchain&gt;</code> elements, and it cannot
     be specified outside a target.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/makeurl.html">MakeURL</a></td>
    <td><p>Creates a URL (list) from a file/fileset or path</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/pathconvert.html">PathConvert</a></td>
    <td><p>Converts a nested path, path reference, filelist reference,
     or fileset reference to the form usable on a specified platform
     and/or to a list of items separated by the specified separator
     and stores the result in the specified property.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/property.html">Property</a></td>
    <td><p>Sets a property (by name and value), or set of properties
     (from a file or resource) in the project.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/propertyfile.html">PropertyFile</a></td>
    <td><p>Creates or modifies property files. Useful when wanting to
     make unattended modifications to configuration files for
     application servers and applications. Typically used for things
     such as automatically generating a build number and saving it to
     a build properties file, or doing date manipulation.<p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/uptodate.html">Uptodate</a></td>
    <td><p>Sets a property if a given target file is newer than a set
     of source files.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/whichresource.html">Whichresource</a></td>
    <td><p>Finds a class or resource.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/xmlproperty.html">XmlProperty</a></td>
    <td><p>Loads property values from a well-formed XML file.</p></td>
  </tr>
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    <th scope="col">Description</th>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/ftp.html">FTP</a></td>
    <td><p>Implements a basic FTP client that can send, receive, list,
     and delete files, and create directories.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/rexec.html">Rexec</a></td>
    <td><p>Automates a <code>rexec</code> session.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/scp.html">Scp</a></td>
    <td><p>Copies files to or from a remote server using SSH.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/setproxy.html">setproxy</a></td>
    <td><p>Sets Java's HTTP proxy properties, so that tasks and code
     run in the same JVM can have access to remote web sites through a
     firewall.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/sshexec.html">Sshexec</a></td>
    <td><p>Executes a command on a remote server using SSH.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/telnet.html">Telnet</a></td>
    <td><p>Automates a <code>telnet</code> session. This task uses
     nested <code>&lt;read&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;write&gt;</code>
     tags to indicate strings to wait for and specify text to
     send.</p></td>
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    <th scope="col">Description</th>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/cvs.html">Cvs</a></td>
    <td><p>Handles packages/modules retrieved from
     a <a href="https://www.nongnu.org/cvs/" target="_top">CVS</a>
     repository.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/changelog.html">CvsChangeLog</a></td>
    <td><p>Generates an XML report of the changes recorded in
     a <a href="https://www.nongnu.org/cvs/" target="_top">CVS</a>
     repository.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/cvspass.html">CVSPass</a></td>
    <td><p>Adds entries to a <samp>.cvspass</samp> file. Adding
     entries to this file has the same affect as a <kbd>cvs
     login</kbd> command.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/cvstagdiff.html">CvsTagDiff</a></td>
    <td><p>Generates an XML-formatted report file of the changes
     between two tags or dates recorded in
     a <a href="https://www.nongnu.org/cvs/" target="_top">CVS</a>
     repository.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/clearcase.html">ClearCase</a></td>
    <td><p>Tasks to perform the ClearCase <kbd>cleartool checkin</kbd>,
     <kbd>checkout</kbd>, <kbd>uncheckout</kbd>, <kbd>update</kbd>,
     <kbd>lock</kbd>, <kbd>unlock</kbd>, <kbd>mklbtype</kbd>, <kbd>rmtype</kbd>,
     <kbd>mklabel</kbd>, <kbd>mkattr</kbd>, <kbd>mkdir</kbd>, <kbd>mkelem</kbd>,
     and <kbd>mkbl</kbd> commands.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/ccm.html">Continuus/Synergy</a></td>
    <td><p>Tasks to perform the Continuus <kbd>ccm checkin</kbd>,
     <kbd>checkout</kbd>, <kbd>reconfigure</kbd>, <em>ccmcheckintask</em>,
     and <em>ccmcreatetask</em> commands.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/vss.html">Microsoft Visual SourceSafe</a></td>
    <td><p>Tasks to perform the Visual SourceSafe <kbd>ss get</kbd>,
     <kbd>label</kbd>, <kbd>history</kbd>, <kbd>checkin</kbd>,
     <kbd>checkout</kbd>, <kbd>add</kbd>, <kbd>cp</kbd>,
     and <kbd>create</kbd> commands.</p></td>
  </tr>

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    <td><a href="Tasks/pvcstask.html">Pvcs</a></td>
    <td><p>Allows the user extract the latest edition of the source
     code from a PVCS repository.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/sos.html">SourceOffSite</a></td>
    <td><p>Tasks to perform the SourceOffSite <kbd>sos get</kbd>, <kbd>label</kbd>,
     <kbd>checkin</kbd>, and <kbd>checkout</kbd> commands.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/junit.html">Junit</a></td>
    <td><p>Runs tests from the <a href="https://junit.org"
     target="_top">Junit</a> testing framework. This task has been
     tested with JUnit 3.0 and later; it won't work with versions
     prior to JUnit 3.0.</p></td>
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    <td><a href="Tasks/junitreport.html">JunitReport</a></td>
    <td><p>Merges the individual XML files generated by
     the <a href="Tasks/junit.html">Junit</a> task and applies a
     stylesheet on the resulting merged document to provide a
     browsable report of the testcases results.</p></td>
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